Liaozhai Ghost Story

Chapter 31 Forty Thousand

Big Sima, the king of the new city, has a housekeeper in the house, and his family is rich. On this day, I suddenly had a dream that a man ran into the bedroom and said to himself, "I owe me 40,000 copper coins. Pay it back quickly."

The housekeeper asked, "When do I owe you money?"

The man didn't answer and turned around. When Oer woke up, his wife happened to give birth to a baby boy. The housekeeper knew that my son, the incarnation of debt, came to collect the bill. Oh, the injustice of the previous life.

So I prepared 40,000 copper coins and put them in a separate room. The children should eat, dress, go to school for medical treatment, and spend all from it.

After three or four years, there were only 700 copper coins left in the room. When the nursing mother was holding the child, the housekeeper stopped the child and said, "Forty thousand copper coins are about to run out. You can go." When the child heard the words, his face changed greatly. His eyes stared and he stopped moving. He touched his nose, and his breath was gone. He was dead.

The housekeeper sighed and bought the coffin with the remaining 700 copper coins, handled the funeral, and put the earth for the child.

Those who do not repay their debts can be taken as a warning.

In the past, there was a man who asked the monk for the reason. The monk said, "You don't owe others, and others don't owe you. How can you have a son?" Therefore: to have a good child is to repay kindness, and to have a bad child is to ask for debt. Therefore, don't be happy when you have a child, and don't be sad when you die.